• Indicted! Secret Talks by County Judge, Commissioners, Tea Party PAC for Holy Road Bond (Courier)
• Off Duty, Drunk, Speeding El Paso Police Officer Killed Dane Keith Rutter on I-35 (Fox7)
• Uptown BRT Expected to Be Open to Passenger Service March 2019 (Houston Chron)
• Freeway Construction Delays Often Outweigh Brief Period of Free Flow Before Induced Traffic (Guidry)
• Vulnerable User: Horse Running Down the Center Lane of 610 Loop in Houston (Click2Houston)
• Road Building, Commercial Interests Even More Tightly Linked in Original Sprawl (Houston Chron)
• Can TXDOT Do the Cool Parts of I-45 Plan, Add Transit, and Not Add SOV Capacity? (Houston Chron)

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• Deadly Police Chase Started Because a Man Was Urinating in Public (Houston Chron)
• DART Has a Page Up With Everything It Wants You to Know About the Proposed D2 Project
• Austin Council Sends $720M Mobility Bond Prioritizing Corridors to Staff at 1:37 AM (KXAN)
• …Asks for $15 Million Dedicated to Priorities of Vision Zero Action Plan (City of Austin)
• …Suburban Council Members Allocate Half of Sidewalk Funding Based on District, Not Need (Ben Wear)
• While TXDOT Spending $4.3B Mostly to Encourage Sprawl, Driving on I-35 (Community Impact)
• Work to Fix Austin’s Five Most Dangerous Intersections Should Be Finished This Year (KEYE)
• Somebody Was Killed in a Crash at This Neighborhood Intersection in El Paso Last Night (KVIA)
• City of Pflugerville Ending 16-Year Transit Drought (Statesman)
• Commentary: Eastside’s Cherry Street a Case Study for Shift to Walkability (Rivard)

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• Presentations Now Available From TTI Texas Safety Conference
• Membership of TX Traffic Safety Task Force Revealed in TTC Comm Moseley’s Presentation
• …Which Proposes That TXDOT Goal Is to Reduce 3,533 Deaths to Zero in 10 Years (10% Every Year)
• FHWA Vision Zero Presentation Shows Houston as “Considering Vision Zero” (pdf)
• Austin & San Antonio Vision Zero Presentations
• How Will Amtrak Be Involved With Texas Central Private HSR? (Peter J LeCody)
• Renovating Old Urbanism in San Antonio’s Growing Downtown Tech District (Rivard)
• Dallas City Council Gets Contentious Over Proposal for a Park Capping Part of I-35E (Morning News)
• TXDOT Trying to Extend the “Controversial” 249 Toll Road All the Way to Navasota (KWBC)
• CM Garza Forum Post: Of Course Austin Should Invest in Sidewalks, Safety, & Multimodal Access Now

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• You Can Tell Austin’s Capital Metro That You Want More Frequent Service
• Pedestrian Pete Calls for Prioritizing Walkability in Low Car-Ownership Areas (Free Press Houston)
• In Good Cities, “Traffic Congestion Is Entirely Irrelevant to the Daily Lives of Most People” (Chron)
• Austin Loses Smart City Challenge to Columbus, Ohio (KVUE)
• Casar and Get Austin Moving Drop Alternate Plan, Support Improved Mayor Adler Bond (Monitor)
• Texas State Rep Byron Cook Fights the Future of HSR With Present Tense Grammar (Morning News)
• Circuit Trail Conservancy Seeks $20M Bond of $56M Need for Dallas Hike Bike Loop (Morning News)
• Ten Most Instagrammed Houston Restaurants Have 58% Higher Walkscore Than Average (Jay Crossley)
• San Antonio’s Alamo Area MPO Hiring an Active Transportation Planner
• City of Austin Has Started Busting the Anarchists of TNC, Arcade City (KVUE)

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• Austin Council Member Don Zimmerman Sues to Overturn Ride Hailing Prop 1 Vote (Court Filing)
• Houston Bike Plan Should Get Vote in August, With Ordinances Added to Strengthen It (News88.7)
• Corpus Christi Victim Embraces and Forgives Hit-and-Run Driver at Sentencing (Corpus Christi Caller)
• Austin City Manager Might Have Another Job Before Transportation Bond Gets a Vote (KUT)
• From TTI Impaired Driving Forum: 81% of Dead DUI Drivers Are Male, 54% White (Presentation)
• Editorial Opposes Capping I-35 and Reconnecting Eastside, Because Gentrification (Statesman)
• Go to the San Antonio Build Your Own Bond Event on June 30 & Build Safe, Multimodal (Rivard)
• Map of Pedestrian Fatalities in San Antonio 2013 – 2015 (Vision Zero San Antonio)

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• Austin Council Adopts New Sidewalk Plan (Community Impact)
• … Fort Worth Only Other Big 10 Texas City With Ped or Sidewalk Plan
• El Paso County Commissioners Don’t Understand Induced Demand From Road Building (KVIA)
• Will the Texas Dept of Insurance Safety Summit (Aug 8-10 in Austin) Include Vision Zero?
• Houston Metro Hiring an Urban Designer (Metro)
• Patton Village Police Officer Dies in T-Bone Crash During Police Chase (Click2Houston)
• Two Adults Killed, Children Critically Injured in Head-On Crash Off Grand Parkway (KHOU)
• Man Killed In Traffic Trying to Walk Away From Vehicle After Late Night Crash on I-20 (Morning News)
• Middle Age Man Kills Self Crashing Into Telephone Pole in San Antonio (KSAT)
• Michelle Davis, 21-Year-Old Drunk Driver, Kills 21-Year-Old Eunice Chavez (Morning News)

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• Eight Organizations Urge Austin to Meet January 2017 Target for Form-Based Code (Monitor)
• Austin “Environmental” Commission Opposes Density of Jobs and Retail Development (TWCNews)
• People Crashing Cars Into Cows Is a Thing With the Ag Land-Destroying Grand Porkway (CW39)
• The Power of Transit 2016: Advancing Regional Coordination, June 22 at H-GAC & Online
• Austin Council Passes Amazing South Central Waterfront Plan, Adds More Affordable (Zakcq Lockrem)
• Final Draft of Bike Plan Will Be Presented to TTI Committee Monday, Head for Vote (Houston Planning)
• People Who Chose to Live Outside Cities & Avoid Taxes Are Mad About Lack of Services (Houston Chron)
• Uber Succeeds at Lobbying House Transpo Chair Pickett to Potentially Overrule Cities (El Paso Times)
• San Antonio Focuses Affordable Housing Efforts Into More Location Efficient Areas (Express News)

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